When it was reported to His Majesty Aurangzeb, that in the reign of his father every year a sum of seventy-nine thousand rupees was distributed through the Sadru-es-Sudúr amongst the poor during five months of the year,—viz. twelve thousand rupees in each of the months of Muharram and Rabí’u-il awwal, ten thousand in Rajab, fifteen thousand in Sha’bán, and thirty thousand in the sacred month of Ramazán—and that during the remaining seven months no sum was distributed in charity,—His Majesty ordered the Sadru-es-Sudúr and other accountants of the household expenses, that with regard to those five months they should observe the same rule, and in each of the other months also they should give ten thousand rupees to be distributed among the poor; so that the annual sum expended in charity, including the increase which was now made, amounted to one lac and forty-nine thousand rupees.